While looking at my locality, I noticed St Leonards Ward I was looking at was out of date. At least I think it is. Most of the area SW of Topsham Road is in St Davids Ward since 2016 (Original plan was everything SW of the road, until locals pointed out that St Leonards Church would be in St Davids Ward )
Source states OS OpenData Boundary Maps, but not a year. If one boundary is out of date, then at least two are. Given that these boundaries are frequently relations, what is the appropriate manner to update them? (Outside of OSM, I would have done this as a simple layer replacement.)
Sorry, can’t help with your question, but this bit made me chuckle.
Several years ago, boundaries for some of our State Government electorates were altered, with the Mermaid Beach boundary being pushed further south into the existing area of Burleigh, while Burleigh also went south into Currumbin.
Sounds simple enough, but it then meant that the State Government-owned electoral office for Burleigh was then located inside Mermaid Beach area, while the Currumbin office was now in Burleigh!
We nearly had the same here with Exeter, the county administrative capital, forming an authority at the same level as the county. Leaving the administrative buildings inside an area they didn’t administer.
It looks like this boundary update issue is challenging given the low responses in an older post.
Somewhat famously Surrey County Council had it’s headquarters in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames for 56 years from 1965 until they finally moved to Reigate in 2021.
Given that ward boundaries can get updated with little fanfare, aren’t really important apart from a few weeks every few years when there’s an election, don’t represent administrative divisions, and can be obtained as OpenData from OS, I wonder if they’re worth keeping in OpenStreetMap…
I’d go along with removing them completely @Robert_Whittaker. I’d rather they be gone than wrong. Anyone who wants them can get them easily from the OS.
I guess the local authority boundaries change less often, but we may well be seeing a set of changes soon. Does the same issue apply with updating relations?
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